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Handbook on water security / edited by Claudia Pahl-Wostl, Anik Bhaduri, Joyeeta Gupta.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Water security.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Water security has received increasing attention in the scientific and policy community in recent years. This Handbook covers the wide range of perspectives required to understand water security as a concept guiding water governance and management at different levels and in different regions. It reflects on past, present and future challenges to water security and strategies on how to overcome them. An invaluable resource for scientific scholars, it will also appeal policymakers and practitioners interested in a deeper understanding of this important concept.
- Contents:
- Front matter; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; 1. Water security: a popular but contested concept; PART I CONCEPTUAL PERSPECTIVES; 2. Water security: critical analysis of emerging trends and definitions; 3. Water security: past, present and future of a controversial concept; 4. Water securities and the individual: challenges from human security to consumerism; 5. The social construction of water security discourses: preliminary evidence and policy implications from the Middle East; 6. Water security, systemic risks and adaptive water governance and management
- 7. How trade policies can help to achieve water security in a transboundary setting8. Water sovereignty and security, high politics and hard power: the dangers of borrowing discourses!; PART II THEMATIC PERSPECTIVES; 9. Perspectives on climate change impacts and water security; 10. Groundwater and security; 11. Role of water security for agricultural and economic development - concepts and global scenarios; 12. Human security and access to water, sanitation, and hygiene: exploring the drivers and nexus; 13. The ecology of water security
- 14. Water security and environmental water needs: the role of the ecosystem services concept and transformation of governance systems15. Secure water supply in water-scarce regions; PART III REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES; 16. Water security or water 'securities'? Increasing complexity in balancing of multiple goals in Spain; 17. Water security in Southern Africa: discourses securitising water and the implications for water governance and politics; 18. Water security - China perspective; 19. Water security in Southeast Asia region
- 20. Australian water security: a water-food-environment-energy nexus perspectiveIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78254-801-7
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